Please send your abstract to the guest editors at:
Peter Beresford,  [log in to unmask]
Brenda LeFrançois,  [log in to unmask]
Jasna Russo,  [log in to unmask]


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From: Brenda LeFrancois <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 8 September 2014 22:22
Subject: Call for Papers, Special Issue of the journal Intersectionalities on Mad Studies
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Guest Editors
Peter Beresford, Professor of Social Policy, Brunel University, UK
Brenda LeFrançois, Associate Professor, Memorial University
Jasna Russo, PhD Candidate, Brunel University, UK

Abstract Submission Deadline: November 3rd  2014

The special issue Mad Studies: Intersections with Disability Studies, Social Work and ‘Mental Health’ aims for an  interdisciplinary – or ‘in/disciplinary’ - collection of articles that will demonstrate the relationship and contribution of Mad Studies to other related fields of study.

Questions that we would in particularly like to explore include, but are not limited to:

•  How has the project of Mad Studies been taken up both in and outside of Canada in the fieldsof disability studies, social work and/or ‘mental health’? How is this emergent field evolving internationally?

• How are Mad bodies read within the fields of ‘mental health’, disability studies and/orsocial work?   How might Mad Studies open a space to read Mad bodies differently and/or understand madness through the filter of social justice principles and in particular with the centering of the analyses of those who have been psychiatrized?

• What kind of knowledge production might lead to the development of non-medical conceptualizations and alternative social responses to madness, sanism, and psychiatrization, including resistance to current power relationships within and outside of the mental health system?

• In what ways do Mad identities intersect with other socially disadvantaged subjectivities in (re)producing hierarchies of dominance and subordination?

• In what ways does using an intersectionality lens support the unpacking of the role of sanism within the matrix of domination?

•  What  are  the  working  realities  of  Mad  identified  scholars  and  advocates  within  both academic and non-academic settings?

Intersectionalities provides a forum for addressing issues of social difference and power. In order to keep with the journal’s focus we in particularly seek contributions   which consider the intersections of age, disability, class, poverty, gender and sexual identity, geographical (dis)location, colonialism/imperialism, indigeneity, racialization, ethnicity, citizenship. Please see the Journal policy at:
http://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/IJ/about/editorialPolicies#focusAndScope

Review process and the time line

• Please submit abstracts by November 3rd 2014 (not more than 500 words).

           The guest editors of this special issue will review the abstracts and notify you about the decision by November 24th 2014.

• The full manuscripts are due March 30th 2015.

Submitting manuscripts

• Contributions should be between 3000 and 7000 words.

• Submissions should follow the Journal’s editorial policies and guidelines for submissions, which can be found at: http://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/IJ/about/editorialPolicies#peerReviewProcess

• Please note it is the responsibility of the submitting authors to ensure that the articles are correctly edited for Canadian English and within the journal’s format.

• At the top of your submission, please clearly state: “Special Issue: Mad Studies: Intersections with Disability Studies, Social Work and ‘Mental Health’

• All papers should be submitted online at http://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/IJ/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

We encourage contributions from authors of various regions and backgrounds and will answer any further inquiries. Please direct inquiries to the guest editors:

Peter Beresford,  [log in to unmask]
Brenda LeFrançois,  [log in to unmask]
Jasna Russo,  [log in to unmask]